Intradural-extramedullary cavernoma is a rare condition with only 23 cases reported in the literature. Most cases described adhere to spinal root or spinal cord. We report an example of this rare ...

A rare type of brain blood vessel malformation known as a cavernous angioma affects more than one million Americans and carries a lifetime risk of stroke and seizures. Only around one-third of cases ...

A 47 year-old woman presented with headaches. She had an episode of transient right sided numbness several years earlier. Cavernous Angioma: (Left) T1-weighted axial MRI; (Right) T2-weighted axial MRI ...

A cavernous malformation, also known as a cavernous angioma, is a cluster of enlarged and irregular blood vessels (termed as ‘caverns’) that are filled with blood and lined with endothelium. These ...

The lesion is most likely a cavernous angioma. The general features of cavernous angiomas are summarized in Figure 2. Cavernous angiomas are also known as cavernous hemangiomas or cavernomas. They are ...

Cavernous angioma (also known as cavernous malformations or CCM) are clusters of abnormal blood vessels in the brain or spinal cord that affect up to three million people in the United States. More ...

The patient reported experiencing recurrent, painless swelling of his left knee since he was 8 years old (Fig. 1). There was no preceding trauma. He had pain and swelling once or twice a year that ...